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Why are some child migrants to the U.S. being held in buses?
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    US calls reports of migrant children in buses ‘unacceptable’.
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    Reports [are emerging] of unaccompanied migrant children being forced to stay overnight in parked buses at the Dallas convention center. Dr. Amy Cohen, a psychiatrist and executive director of the advocacy group Every Last One, said a 15-year-old Honduran boy she is working with was held on a bus from Saturday to Wednesday, using the bus bathroom during that time and unable to move about freely or communicate with family.
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    MVM [a transportation contractor] said it experienced some delays at a 24-hour regional hub where buses meet to get children on their way to join family, which resulted in “a child staying at that site longer than our target wait time of four hours. The company said the child had access to an air-conditioned bus, food and snacks, bottled water and personal protective equipment.
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    [Dept. of Health and Human Services] opened 14 emergency intake centers, including at the Dallas convention center and other large venues. The Dallas facility opened in February with plans to house up to 3,000 children.
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    Border Patrol agents may retire early due to frustration with border crisis.
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    Border policy is getting more and more convoluted. That’s creating false hope for migrants.
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Why are early findings from Arizona's election audit being challenged?


    Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, the leader of the Republican-majority Senate, wrote an open letter to the board on Wednesday evening informing them the auditors discovered three main "serious iss...

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Keep - Most of the competitors will be vaccinated and probably most of the attendees --but if there is still a concern, the games can go on without attendees and only televised -- the competitors have worked so long and hard it seems to be a shame for most of them to lose their chance at a medal for a virus that is not life threatening for more than 95% of those who catch it.


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Why are protests continuing in Colombia?


    Violent protests erupted in major cities across the country on April 28, following President Ivan Duque's announcement of tax reforms that he said were "a necessity to keep the social programs going." Duque subseq...

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    Areas where the B.1.617.2 variant, first identified in India, is spreading quickly could receive accelerated vaccinations for multi-generational households, with anyone over 18 offe...

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What does China's Mars rover landing mean for the international space race?


    After circling the Red Planet for more than three months, the Tianwen-1 lander, with the rover attached, separated from the orbiter to begin its plunge toward the pl...

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